Policemen Quotes - Page 9

• Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.

  Groucho Marx

  Eight, Four, Tables

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• These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk and talk about things that they have no say in ... Would they do it this time? Would they beat the Great Socialist and win the elections? Had they raised enough money of their own, and bribed enough policemen, and bought enough fingerprints of their own, to win? Like eunuchs discussing the Kama Sutra, the voters discuss the elections in Laxmangarh.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Winning, People

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me when I'm gone. It's like marrying a policeman.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Dangerous Situations, Broken, Worry

  Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.307, Zola Books

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• If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

  P. L. Travers

  Tree, Want, Crosses

  P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  White, People, House

  Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist the lute string with the cord on the cake boxes. "I got terrible arthuritis." "I dust a bit," Ignatius told the policeman. "In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Jobs, Home, Writing

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• I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

  Brendan Behan

  War, Situation

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• What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

  Polly Adler

  Father, Real, Cities

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.9, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism and Mutualism, resting upon property, involve a development of the private policeman not at all compatible with my notion of freedom.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Effort, Development, Demand

  Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell (2005). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.79, SUNY Press

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• There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Issues, Cities, Shopping

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• It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?

  Julia Alvarez

  Secret, Sims, Being Afraid

  Julia Alvarez (2007). “Before We Were Free”, p.20, Laurel Leaf

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• Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the window of a truck, lifted her shirt and cut out her kidneys with a surgical knife,’ Mau Sen said, his face stony and white. ‘I think that removing the organs of convicts while they are still alive is too much. It completely contravenes medical ethics.’ ‘This is a dissection class, not a political meeting,’ Sun Chunlin said.

  Ma Jian

  Cutting, Thinking, Counter Culture

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• There is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a guard there... But if orange trees and apple trees grew all over the place, you couldn't sell them.

  Jacque Fresco

  Orange Trees, Apples, Needs

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• . . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot be ruled out for tomorrow, it is-beyond being a duty-also fear. Every morning when I get up I can read the Auschwitz number on my forearm, something that touches the deepest and most closely intertwined roots of my existence; indeed I am not even sure if this is not my entire existence. Then I feel approximately as I did back then when I got a taste of the first blow from a policeman's fist. Every day anew I lose my trust in the world.

  Jean Amery

  Morning, Mean, Blow

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• Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

  E. W. Howe

  Honesty, Powerful, Mistake

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• Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.

  Margaret Visser

  Food, Order, Cooking

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• He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had had a good deal of material left over which she had not liked to throw away but hardly seemed able to fit into the general scheme.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Long, Able

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• You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.

  Alex Cox

  Motorcycle, Reservations, Indian

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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• We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

  Jimmy Carter

  America, Desire, Doe

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• As far as Japan is concerned, I want to help all of our allies, but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. We cannot be the policemen of the world. We cannot protect countries all over the world.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Japan, Dollars

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.

  H. L. Mencken

  Trust, Husband, Women

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.267, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Doing good with other people's money has two basic flaws. In the first place, you never spend anybody else's money as carefully as you spend your own. So a large fraction of that money is inevitably wasted. In the second place, and equally important, you cannot do good with other people's money unless you first get the money away from them. So that force - sending a policeman to take the money from somebody's pocket - is fundamentally at the basis of the philosophy of the welfare state.

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Two, People

  Milton Friedman (1978). “Tax limitation, inflation and the role of government”, Fisher Inst

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• I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.

  Brian Jacques

  Children, Writing, Thinking

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• Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!

  Billy Sunday

  Criminals, Reason, Sinner

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